World’s Biggest Pecha Kucha with Rem Koolhaas and Others

Speaking of interesting events I can’t attend, what about this one:

This one-off event will be the World’s Biggest Pecha Kucha, part of
the London Architecture Biennale. With an audience of 1500, this is a chance for for those of you who keep missing out on tickets for our bijou ICA gigs!

Pecha Kucha described:

The Japanese term ‘Pecha Kucha’ roughly translates as ‘chit-chat.’ Up to fourteen participants get to show 20 slides for 20 seconds each, meaning the audience experiences an exhilarating range of speakers and images over the course of the evening. There’s also music, drinking and the inevitable exchange of ideas that occurs when you get so many architects, designers, artists and so on together in the same room.

Speakers: Thomas Heatherwick, designer; Amanda Levete, Future Systems, architect; Tom Dixon, designer; Mark Dytham and Astrid Klein, KDa, architects; Nigel Coates, Branson Coates, architect; FAT, architects; Muf, architects; Ekow Eshun, ICA, director; Troika, designers; Bernhard Steinerhoff, Design Control, design consultant; Alison Jackson, photographer; Rem Koolhaas, OMA, architect; Patrick Schumacher, Zaha Hadid Architects, architect; Ricky Burdett, LSE professor, director of 2006 Venice architecture biennale.